Lead Backend Engineer

At Marley Spoon (Full-time), in Berlin, Germany

Expires at: 2019-10-13

Marley Spoon (ASE:MMM) is bringing delightful, market fresh and easy cooking back to the people, while re-inventing the global food supply chain to reduce unethical food waste. We are connecting consumers with quality producers, providing fresh food directly to customer's homes and we are present in Europe, the US and Australia, shipping our product to about 50.000 zip codes..

Help us make the move from a monolith to an event-driven microservice architecture running in Kubernetes on AWS. You will be working in the 14 engineers strong Customer Experience team (the only team at Marley Spoon building customer-facing products) and you will be leading a smaller sub-team of backend engineers. The CX team is responsible for the website and the two mobile apps our customers use to buy and personalise their weekly meal kit delivery.

Tech Stack

Web app, REST and GraphQL API are built with Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL and Redis

Event-architecture built with Kafka and custom Ruby-based tooling

Beanstalk for background processing

CI/CD pipeline with Codeship

Terraform and Ansible to manage our infrastructure

Your role

Lead a team of 3-4 backend engineers (tech and people)

Shape the future of our backend architecture

Write testable and readable code, that runs fast and reliably

Work closely with the other teams and your teammates to arrive at the best possible feature implementation

Mentor Junior developers and help them reach their growth goals

Our values

We are a growing team of hard-working, hands-on individuals who have the common goal of creating the perfect meal kit experience for our customers. We are proud to have people who take initiative, are dedicated and are committed. We have an open and inclusive culture where you can be yourself, learn new skills and are surrounded with interesting people.

As part of this open culture, we have chosen our own team values and agreed that we

strive for high product and code quality

keep our customers in focus

maintain a healthy work-life balance

work in an environment where it is safe to fail

are committed to personal growth

Main requirements

5+ years of experience in software development

Previous leadership experience or strong interest in taking on a leadership role within the backend team

Professional experience in Ruby (on Rails)

Strong testing mindset

Proven experience of working with relational and NoSQL databases

A drive to learn and improve yourself and others around you

Worked on a Microservice architecture before or have experience in spanning applications across the globe

Nice to have

Elixir, Go, Rust? We are open for change!

Docker + Kubernetes knowledge

Perks

Autonomy & Impact

Flexible working hours, home office and remote work

Spend 5% of your working time on personal learning and development

Conference / Training budget

Our beautiful and cozy office is located in the heart of Berlin Kreuzberg close to some of the best restaurants (from tasty Köfte to two star Michelin!)

Free food boxes delivered to your doorstep

Cooked food from our test kitchen

Gym membership

Craving for a fancy Espresso? We've got you covered! If coffee is not your cup of tea, we've also got tea and soft drinks

Friday beers and many after work events

An open, diverse and respectful culture with over 50 nationalities

Possibility to trade part of your salary for double the amount of stock options

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